I believe that the blogs are not too far from the point at which an additional blogger will significantly affect readership and general acceptance.  Consistently blogging is a major difficulty as well as setback that the average blogger faces.  From my own experiences as well as observations a blog with wide readership will tend to have a much more consistent blogger behind it, and I believe that one does not necessarily cause the other, but as readership increases, the blogger will be more motivated to post since he/she has an audience, and the consistency will then fuel more readership (as long as quantity does not dilute quality).   Microblogging, although I do not participate, is most likely the same.  If more people care about your tweets, you are more likely to twitter, and those who twitter most regularly are also those who are more likely to be followed.  The difference lies in why people blog versus microblog.  Blogging is the written result of a thought process.  It would be itself a “tweet” on Twitter, “I am blogging”.  It stems from the desire to be heard and understood, where microblogging is a desire to be observed.  The universe of people who are proactive enough to blog is small already, 7%, and those who blog regularly is much smaller.  Since microblogging must be regular in order to be purposeful, I can not imagine there being a universe of people who choose to microblog that is any larger, as people’s tendencies towards narcissism begins to clash with desire for privacy, actual ability, as well as general apathy.

There is going to be an eventual backlash against the effects from certain technologies such as social networking, cell phones, pda’s, etc, has had on individual’s privacy, complexity of life, and most of all - a desire to be “unaccessible” at a given point of time.  I have already seen a small disdain for cell phones and blackberries and the 24/7 “right” to accessibility it provides other people creeping into my own life and some of my friends as well.  Twitter, in my opinion, is dangerously operating on the tipping point.

With the above in mind, I believe that Twitter will succeed if “tweets” could be organized and aggregated into a database that could be accessible and analyzed.  A few months back, I had an idea for a website that basically paid people to Twitter.  If you wished to give access to certain personal information such as age, location, education, sex, etc.